Clearly, per pupil spending is not the only factor in whether or not a school is successful; however, I assure you that cutting an already very “lean” budget will have profound academic consequences. The reality is that Stafford Republicans would rather provide irresponsible tax breaks to their friends by using “school funds,” which could have been used to lessen the impact of the severe cuts coming from the state. Republicans need to get their priorities straight, putting our children first for a change. That would be refreshing.

So, let’s examine that statement: “An extremely good measure of how much a county [spends] in education is how much they [sic] spend[s]….”

Clearly, whatever the amount spent per pupil in the county in which you were educated, it was wasted on you. Thank you for that tautology.

Who cares about how much is spent per pupil? Well, let’s see, mostly teachers unions and their Democrat lapdogs, and educational bureaucrats, since it ends up in their pockets in one way or another.

Those who actually care about the quality of eduction know that per-pupil spending is, at its best, a crude measure of educational quality and frequently, irrelevant to educational outcomes. For instance, it wasn’t so long ago (haven’t seen the figures recently) that New Hampshire had the lowest per-pupil spending in the nation, while New Hampshire had the highest average test scores on the College Boards.

Please take a look at how your test scores, graduation rate, etc. compare to the rest of the state and I think you will be pretty pleased.